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 Member 17840 Level 9.35 Jan 2007 
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On the subject of RAIDs, if you're buying a reasonably new Intel-chipset motherboard, you can use matrix RAID to split drives into different types of RAID. For example, I made the two 500GB drives in my system into a 340 GB RAID 1 partition for data and the OS and a 250GB RAID 0 partition for games, swap, temporary files and such.
The quad-core processors kicks all sorts of ass, but it's HARD to use up all four cores, so you might be just as well off with a fast Core 2 Duo. OTOH, the Intel Q6600 chip will overclock like mad (3.0 GHz and up is pretty much guaranteed) without fancy cooling, but then so will all of the Core 2 Duos. Incidentally, that kind of overclocking ability makes the Extreme chips a waste of money, but that shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone. :\ Jam it back in, in the dark. |
Member 17840 Level 9.35 Jan 2007
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Build Your Own PC (Personal Computer)
The only real catch with that guide is that newer heatsinks all tend to have their own weird methods of installation. Of course, they all come with manuals or posters that describe how to install them too. There's nowhere I can't reach. |
Member 17840 Level 9.35 Jan 2007
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Well, a lot of newer motherboards can do memory remapping to get around that annoying address space limitation. My Asus P5K-E has it as an option, though I haven't tried it since I only have 2GB of memory in my system.
Also, for my misgivings about Vista, I haven't noticed it doing any drive thrashing on my system, even when I'm hitting RAM hard. How ya doing, buddy? |
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